| Every newborn baby is dealt a hand of
cards which helps to determine how long he or she will be allowed to play the
game of life. Good cards will help those who have them to have a long and
healthy existence, while bad cards will bring to those who have them terrible
diseases like high blood pressure and heart disease. Occasionally, cards are
dealt out that doom their holders to an early death. In the past, people never
knew exactly which cards they had been dealt. They could guess at the future
only by looking at the kind of health problems experienced by their parents or
grandparents. Genetic testing, which makes it possible to find dangerous genes, has changed all this. But, until recently, if you were tested positive for a bad gene you were not obliged to reveal this to anyone else except in a few extreme circumstances. This A. Diseases. B. Genes. C. Problems. D. Tests. [单项选择]When bringing a newborn baby home from the hospital, most new parents expect a few sleepless nights. However, when an uninterrupted night’s sleep becomes a distant memory, and it is no longer weeks, but months or years since you experienced one, a parent may grow angry, frustrated, and exhausted.
Our firstborn, Robert, was nine-month-old when a girlfriend mentioned that her month-old daughter was regularly sleeping through the night. I was overcome with bitter envy, for it was a feat our son had yet to do. Finally, at twelve months, he slept an entire night. I was elated, believing we’d finally overcome that particular hurdle. Unfortunately, it was the only complete night’s sleep we would enjoy for the next four years. Three pediatricians insisted Robert’s problem was not unusual, and that he would eventually grow out of it. He had no problem going to sleep. In fact, at bedtime he never resisted, and drifted off to dreamland with relative ease. Yet, within an hour after my hu A. They might turn themselves into pediatricians themselves after some years. B. They would treasure the experience because it would become a distant dream. C. They would be overcome with bitter envy for some regularly sleeping children. D. They would probably become some abusive parents because of sleep insufficiency. [单项选择]Every boy and every girl knows that each day and each hour brings their duty.
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